She is chair and co-founder of the Asylum Support Appeals Project, which represents
destitute asylum - seekers.
Calais, of course, contains at the other end of the social spectrum
destitute asylum seekers who wish to try to enter Britain.
In March 2012, the Home Office decided it wanted to shave off # 140 million from the price of housing the 23,000
destitute asylum seekers waiting to be cleared.
G4S, Serco and Clearel signed contracts in March 2012 to find housing for
destitute asylum seekers in a move intended to save # 20 million a year over seven years.
Not exact matches
Thousands of
asylum seekers in the UK are
destitute, marginalised and fear for their lives.
«Government policy is to use a carrot and stick approach of making rejected
asylum seekers
destitute while offering very basic support if applicants say they will «voluntarily» return to the place they fled,» reads the CAP website.
«Thousands of
asylum seekers are
destitute and it is illegal for them to work,» explains Niall Cooper, national co-ordinator of Church Action on Poverty (CAP).
A complex and combative
asylum system can leave them
destitute and unprotected.
Flawed regulations are leaving
asylum seekers
destitute and homelessness, according to a new report funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
This can be most problematic for those whose very presence is unwelcome — those whose claim for
asylum has been rejected, for example, who are in effect deliberately left
destitute.
In this context, the meaning of the term «genuine obstacle» is crucial: the more narrowly it is defined, the wider will be the category of
destitute failed
asylum - seekers who will be ineligible for support.
However, the meaning of the term «genuine obstacle» — and so the extent of the category of
destitute failed
asylum - seekers who will be ineligible for support — is not to be found anywhere in the Bill.
Asylum seekers: YLAL committee member Ronagh Craddock wrote for openJustice about the impact of legal aid cuts on asylum seekers, who may be left homeless and destitute because of lack of access to legal a
Asylum seekers: YLAL committee member Ronagh Craddock wrote for openJustice about the impact of legal aid cuts on
asylum seekers, who may be left homeless and destitute because of lack of access to legal a
asylum seekers, who may be left homeless and
destitute because of lack of access to legal advice.
There are two sources of support for
destitute adult
asylum seekers.
In his judgment, Simon Brown LJ said that the regulations contemplated for some
asylum - seekers «a life so
destitute that to my mind no civilised nation can tolerate it» — «a sorry state of affairs» that could be achieved by «primary legislation alone».